Argentina - Salta Hotels

  Salta is the capital of the northwestern province of Salta, Argentina, and a city. With its metropolitan area, the eighth largest city of Argentina to the 2001 census as has a population of 464 678 inhabitants. This Lerma Valley, 1152 meters above sea level in the foothills of the Andes mountains is located. It's hot and dry, with average annual rainfall 756 mm and 16.4 ° C (20.4 ° C in summer mean temperature, 10.8 ° C in winter). January and February are the biggest rainfall months. During the spring, Salta, sometimes severe, week long dust storms that could not be saved. Inserting Salta la Linda ("Salta Fair"), this is an important tourist old, colonial architecture and natural scenery of the valley to the west has been due. Activities of the city in accordance with 18 century Cabildo, the neo-classical style Cathedral, and the July 9 is located in the main square. City museums indigenous civilizations in this area (the Inca Empire, what Salta, the southernmost region Collasuyu an empire were divided in four areas belong to have evolved from the artifacts and artwork of a large exhibition Spanish conquest), as well as 16 century Spanish conquest and colonial and post-colonial era up. Salta to the Clouds "is the starting point for the train" (train a las nubes), and on the road to Cafayate red underwear as well as other nearby attractions. Martín Miguel de Güemes Airport, six miles southeast of the city, Buenos Aires, Tucumán, Jujuy, Córdoba and Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia) has regular flights. Salta, Argentina probably like most Spanish cities, so much so that most of the tourists visiting from Spain, and Andalusian city of Salta to find that a strong similarity. However, local cultures, Spanish and gaucho (hybrid, Criollo, and non-native indigenous) traditions, the city, a little different in the southern metropolis of its own as a more European identity is a mixture of loans. The city of three theaters, numerous museums (boasting one of the exhibits c.500-year-old inca children Andes Inca gods [the victim perfectly preserved bodies 2]) and painting exhibitions, performances, music festivals and other busy calendar of cultural events. Salta, the main activities of a Cultural Festival in April, display all month long, and cultural performances, craft activities such as exhibitions, and offers a wide range of orchestral performance is vibrant.